workingamerica:

75 bills restricting voting rights intro’d in 30 states…in 2013 alone.

A woman living here has registered to vote, thereby assuming responsibility of citizenship.

Election day, Wisconsin!  Head to the polls by 8:00 tonight!  And remember, you can register to vote right at your polling place.  

Please consider voting Ed Fallone for Supreme Court Justice and Tony Evers for State Superintendent. 

Find your polling place here.

Roggensack declined to recuse in a case where one party was represented by Donald Schott, an attorney who had represented her in a 2008 proceeding before the Government Accountability Board. She has also refused to disclose whether she received Schott’s services for free or at a reduced rate. And when lawyers for the losing side filed a motion saying Roggensack should have recused herself, she actually participated in a decision ruling that she didn’t need to recuse.

Her behavior received national attention. “Roggensack’s participation in judging her own conduct showed astounding disregard for legal ethics and every litigant’s right to impartial justice,” The New York Times declared.

Please consider voting Ed Fallone for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice on April 2nd.  And remember, you can already vote early at your Municipal Clerk’s office.

In case you missed it: The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act this week and Justice Scalia referred to the act as a “racial entitlement.” 

Remember to vote in the primary election today, Wisconsin!  Voting information can be found here.

(Source: ouisconnie)

Wisconsin: Tuesday, February 19th is primary day!

I hope you’ll consider voting Ed Fallone for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.  He’s been endorsed by Russ Feingold, Gwen Moore, Dave Obey, Wisconsin AFL-CIO, WEAC, SEIU, Fair Wisconsin, AFSCME Council 40, and many others.  You can learn more about him here.

If you have questions about how or where to vote, find your answer here.

Rachel Maddow: The GOP’s New Math

Republicans are trying to figure out if they can use the fact that Republicans have control of the state government to change who that state votes for for President.  

Wisconsin this past election would have cast its 200,000 more votes for Obama than Romney.  But, instead of Obama getting 10 electoral votes out of it, Wisconsin effectively would have cast half a vote for Romney and half a vote for Obama — it would have been 5 to 5 in terms of electoral votes.  Extrapolate this out to the national level under the most aggressive plan that’s been put forward on the Republican side and President Obama would have finished the election nationwide with 5 million more votes than Mitt Romney but Mitt Romney could still have won the electoral college and won the presidency. 

(Source: quickhits)

Ending same-day voter registration in Wisconsin — as Republicans are seeking to do — would cost at least $5.2 million initially and would not reduce the administrative work of clerks.

Republicans Alberta Darling and Joel Kleefisch are drafting the legislation.  Contact them:

Alberta Darling: Phone: 608-266-5830 Email: Sen.Darling@legis.wisconsin.gov

Joel Kleefisch: Phone: 608-266-8551 Email: Rep.Kleefisch@legis.wisconsin.gov

Although Gov. Walker is now pushing to eliminate same-day voting registration in Wisconsin, he accompanied his son to the polls to register and vote on August 14th (the day of the GOP Senate primary).  

If a man was to threaten someone else with bodily harm or death in this country, that man would be arrested, charged with any number of crimes and likely jailed. But I’ve found myself wondering, in light of recent events, that if the Governor of Wisconsin threatens to take away our residents’ most fundamental rights - rights for which Americans have risked their bodies and even laid down their lives - then should not our Governor also be arrested and jailed?

asymmetric-effects:

At what point do people actually start paying attention to these types of issues? We have serious voter suppression issues to deal with in the present to near future.

In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen?

Maine Republican chair suspects voter fraud because black people voted in his state.

He actually said this, and then some. Watch the whole thing.

(via think-progress)